Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Done right, automated traffic enforcement can alleviate bias (Smart Cities Dive)
- CA environmental groups object to idea of CARB chair Mary Nichols heading up US EPA (KQED)
- Politico profiles Nichols
- How environmental justice can return to US EPA (High Country News)
- Toxic pollution from tires may be killing salmon (SF Chronicle)
- Biden could ensure all agencies fight climate change (Gizmodo)
- A Biden administration could boost lawsuits holding oil industry liable for climate change (SF Chronicle)
- Anti-union senator Glazer is mad at BART for securing early contract with its workers (SF Chronicle)
- It should never be suburbs vs cities; we’re in this together (Governing)
- These transit agencies are working to increase affordable housing (Transit Center)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Op-Ed: Pros and Cons of the California Public Utility Commission Decision to Deploy Automated Vehicles
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New regulations bring California a few steps closer to realizing the sustainable, equitable, and safe transition to an automated vehicle future, but there are caveats.
Gateway Cities Council of Governments Staff Critical of Metro Highway Program Flexibility Proposal
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Gateway Cities Council of Government staff are calling "to maintain the integrity of freeway... plans." Elected Gateway Cities leadership may have more multimodal ideas.
Commentary: Electrify California’s Trains Now
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We've got crews out stringing wire already. It's time to take it up a notch.
Distracted Driving Skyrocketing During the Pandemic
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A new study finds that a shocking 27 percent of all drivers were using their cell phones within 60 seconds of impact — and transportation safety leaders are doing almost nothing to stop it, despite a preponderance of proven strategies.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Humboldt still wants to widen Hwy 101 despite threat to old growth redwoods (SF Chronicle)
- LA approves plans for a so-called “green city” at Warner Center in SFV (LA Times)
- Parking lot in San Diego turned into a pedestrian plaza (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Marin County affordable housing project approved under SB 35 rules (Bay Area Metro)
- Natural gas bans: Oakland approves for all new buildings (East Bay Times, SF Chronicle)
- San Jose passes one for commercial buildings (San Jose Spotlight)
- You can’t be a climate mayor if you keep widening freeways (City Observatory)
- Cities are not bad for your health (BBC)
- Bicycle industry booming (Mother Earth News)
- What it can take to be a professional bike racer when you’re Black (NY Times)
- Companies with some of the largest carbon footprints – Amazon, Uber, Jet Blue – make a climate pledge (KFGO)
- Home shopping’s carbon footprint: Amazon emits more CO2 than 9 European Union countries (in Spanish) (El Pais)
- Who got PPP loans, and for how much? It’s all available (Business Journals)
- A dry December means continued fire risk (SF Chronicle)
- The harms from Trump’s attempts to meddle with the census (Washington Post)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Glendora Installs Temporary Protected Bike Lane and Crosswalk Improvements
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Glendora has just about wrapped up its planning efforts and is applying for funds to design and build the Glenora Avenue project.
Can Parking Proceeds Close Muni Budget Hole?
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Suggestions from advocates for closing a $68 million SFMTA deficit
There’s No Better Time to Turn Streets to Markets
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The street market is a powerful and ancient idea that's overdue for a big U.S. comeback, a new report argues — and during a COVID-19 holiday season, there's no better time to get the SUVs out of the road and start setting up the vendor stalls.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Transit needs money, now (Newsweek)
- The nightmare is here: San Bernardino parses out responses to 911 calls (Daily Bulletin)
- ICUs are filling up (CalMatters, Sacramento Bee)
- Ambulance industry “at a breaking point” (NBC)
- Latino communities have been hit especially hard by COVID (LA Times)
- Steps toward solving affordable housing (CalMatters)
- Early test for Biden: Vehicle emission rules (E&E News)
- Cars are expensive and underused, but the value of having access to one is high, and rising (MIT)
- Biden administration needs to rein in Tesla’s dangerous, haphazard experiments with AV tech (Slate)
- Portland’s 20 mph signs have reduced top speeds (Bike Portland)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Patsaouras Plaza Busway Station: How It Is Today and How It Got There
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Over time, the "Ramirez Flyover" morphed into to the newly-opened busway station. Meanwhile complications and delays caused the long delayed project's budget to swell from $17M to $51M